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基本解释

Making a decision of that magnitude cannot be reduced to a formula.
做出这样重大的一个决定不能被降低到一个公式。
Under this scenario, menus would be reduced to prompts, followed by option selection, followed by feedback or results, and so on.
在这个方案中，菜单将简化成提示符，接着是选项选择，再接着是反馈或者结果等等。
Although intentional “I's” andcultural “we's” cannot be reduced to, or explained by, social systems ofecological processes, they cannot exist without them, either.
虽然故意的“我的”和文化“我们的”不能减少或解释为，生态过程的社会系统，他们也不可以离开它们而存在。

But now,military officials say the area held by the Tamil Tigers has been reduced to just a few square kilometers of beachfront.
De Man's point is a question is both rhetorical and grammatical, and the one cannot be reduced to the other. Both readings are available.
德曼想指出的是，一个问句既是修辞型问句又是语法型问句，那么一个不能变成另一个，两种理解都有效。
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We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.
我们原以为,在六个月到一年之内塔利班分子会减少成为一个很小的势利。
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From a peak of 20, 000 in 2002, the guerrillas have been reduced to around 9, 000.
ECONOMIST: This time negotiations might eventually bring peace